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1

Thrifty

The only condition was my parents want me to be thrifty, they think it’s a great way to become rich, and it’s very dexterous.

 

2

Dexterous

The only condition was my parents want me to be thrifty, they think it’s a great way to become rich, and it’s very dexterous.

 

3

Canteen

And of course a huge kitchen with a massive canteen filled with food I like to cook with.

 

4

Infringed

I cannot wait to go to class tomorrow, this school has infringed my waiting patience.

 

 

5

Granulate

The grinders are so big that you could granulate your fingers.

 

6

Apparatus

Then there was this huge apparatus in front of the classroom. It's something that I have never seen in my life, but new

students are forbidden to use it.

 

7

Forbid

Then there was this huge apparatus in front of the classroom. It's something that I have never seen in my life, but new students are forbidden to use it.

 

8

Amble

Anyways, classmates are going to be here soon, so I amble to the classroom like the happiest moments in my life.

 

9

Addle   x2

But when class begins I was really addle.

I was addle because this is a cooking school ,but why are we learning about human body parts, and which parts have more fat in it.

 

10

Malicious

Also, everyone in this class has a malicious look, I thought the class didn't like me and beginning to neglect me,

 

11

Neglect

Also, everyone in this class has a malicious look, I thought the class didn't like me and beginning to neglect me,

 

12

Keen

All the classes I've been taking so far is very keen for me.

 

13

Barrack

And I think there is also a barrack full of old military supplies with a lot of damaged corps from previous wars.

 

14

Frisk

Also, the class teachers are frisking us for what? I ask the teacher, and they say, we are just checking which part of your body have the most blood.

 

15

Bawl

I was about to bawl because I was really scared.

 

16

Piecemeal

 I have made ideas  for my week of how to survive in the weird school with piecemeal plans.

 

17

Murder

The teacher actually murdered a live person and ask us to cook him and then eat it!!

Semester 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

unbearable

incapable of being put up with

“The night is unbearable” (Remarque 108).

 

Have 100 assignments in 1 day is unbearable.

2

skirmish

a minor short-term fight

“After a while Mittelstaedt stops the skirmish and begins the very important exercise of creeping” (Remarque 177).

After a skirmish, he was deserted by his troops, and was obliged to surrender.

3

remnant

a small part remaining after the main part no longer exists

“And at each call a little group separates itself off, a small handful of dirty, pallid soldiers, a dreadfully small handful, and a dreadfully small remnant” (Remarque 135).

One thing is certain, that there is in Australia a flora that is a remnant of a vegetation once widely distributed.


 

4

reluctantly

with a certain degree of unwillingness

“I tread on Muller’s foot: reluctantly he puts the fine boots back again under the bed” (Remarque 17)

She reluctantly pushed his hands away.

 

5

obliquely

to, toward or at one side

“The next throw whizzes obliquely over to the corner” (Remarque 177).

 

They slope obliquely forwards, and end in curved, compressed, hamular processes.


 

6

marvel

Be amazed at

“It is a marvel that our post has had no casualties so far” (Remarque 21).

It is a marvel that we don’t have any homework.

7

magistrate

a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law

 

“He seems to have overdone it with a couple of young recruits on the ploughed field at home and unknown to him the son of the local magistrate was watching” (Remarque 76).


 

They were convened by the magistrate, who presided as in the Roman senate.


 

8

insatiable

impossible to satisfy

“Muller is insatiable and gives himself no peace” (Remarque 77)

Because I am a jerk with an insatiable ego.

 

9

hoist

raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help

“Kat hoists me up” (Remarque 91).

 

They asked if he was injured and assured him they'd hoist  him up to the road.


 

10

gape

look with amazement

“Before me gapes the shell-hole” (Remarque 67).

 

The gape of the mouth is narrow.


 

11

embitter

cause to be bitter or resentful

“At first astonished, then embittered, and finally indifferent, we recognized that what matters is not but the boot brush,not intelligence but the system, not freedom but drill” (Remarque 21).

Many circumstances concurred to embitter the latter years of his life.

 

12

ceaseless

uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

“But on the last day an astonishing number of English heavies opened up on us with high-explosive, drumming ceaselessly on our position, so that we suffered severely and came back only eighty strong” (Remarque 2).

The ceaseless noise of traffic is one of the worst things about living in the downtown core.

13

automaton

a mechanism that can move independently of external control

“...the earth is background of restless, gloomy world of automatons...” (Remarque 115)

To regard himself as a conscious automaton he can never be persuaded.

 

14

peculiar

beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

“I’d been struck by the peculiarity of the man...”

(Hesse 10).

Pretty much evreryone has a peculiar habit of their own.

15

gigantic

as to suggest a giant so exceedingly large or extensive

“The slide along it like gigantic tapering rulers” (Remarque 59).

The Titanic was a gigantic ship.

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